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Who decides to build a house and would not sit down first to count the cost to see if he will be able to finish it or not?
 Well, here was Mazi Obi Ikenna, building a tower without prior proper planning. He never did finish it. He was duped and cheated by his workers for his negligence and ignorance. Suddenly Mazi Obi realised and understood what it meant to farm again, work hard and earn little.
 Little Amara, Mazi Obi's last child out of 5 children seemed to suffer all the shame of her fathers mismanagement. She never did attend expensive schools like her brothers did in the city. She studied in the village.
 She never knew how her classmates got to hear the story of her father. She was tagged "once rich man now poor man's daughter girl". She could not recall much of this, at least if she did she would have advised her father. She was barely 2 years old.
 One day, she asked her mother.
"Nne, what happened to all papa's money? I heard that he was rich."
"Hmmm" her mother sighed. "Wicked people stole from us but my chi is not asleep."
"How long are we going to remain like this?" Amara asked.
"My child I wish I have an answer to your question."
 Amara met her dad. With a firm and stern conviction she told him that they will not remain like this and that wealth will come back to the family. Her father was wondering what tombo or leaf his daughter had been taking. He felt her fore head if the temperature was normal.
 Amara recalled what the Father taught during the mass.
"With humans it is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Put your trust in him, for there is nothing God cannot do."
 Amara held on to these words. She never said anything to anyone about this. As she watched her brothers suffer everyday, coming home frustrated, she intensified her prayers with fasting. She even left the catholic church for the new pentecostal church. It seemed to have more fire in prayer. Amara was searching for answers.
 Anyone would think that God finally blessed Amara's father and he recovered his wealth back but it never did happen that way.
 7 years after Amara started this journey for answers, God blessed her brothers with wonderful jobs, her immediate elder brother with a scholarship and Amara too.
 Now, Amara looks back at her quest for answers. Strangely, her father never got wealth back but her brothers are very wealthy. Mazi Obi doesn't stay in the village with his wife. His first son bought him a house and he lives a wealthy life.
 Everyone is living large and it feels like they were never ever poor. But Amara remembers and ponders on all these things. God's ways are mysterious, never like what we expect. God do answer prayers.

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